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Medical Errors Are The Third Leading Cause Of Death -- How You Can Avoid Them
It is astonishing that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in America. The most recent data indicates that 251,000 deaths are due to medical errors, a frightening number. Every person should be concerned about this. In 1999, the Institute of Medicine published that 98,000 deaths occurred annually due to medical errors. This was just an estimate and of course they suggested more studies to confirm this. Recently, investigators at Johns Hopkins Medical Center updated those 1999 figures. They reviewed 4 studies of patients from throughout America between 2000 and 2008, representing over 37 million admissions...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - July 21, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Intraoperative Hypotension Is Associated With Adverse Clinical Outcomes After Noncardiac Surgery.
CONCLUSIONS: IOH during noncardiac surgery is common and associated with increased 30-day major adverse cardiac or cerebrovascular events. This observation is magnified with increasing hypotension severity. The potentially avoidable nature of the hazard, and the extent of the exposed population, makes hypotension in the operating room a serious public health issue that should not be ignored for any age group. PMID: 33177322 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Anesthesia and Analgesia - November 6, 2020 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Gregory A, Stapelfeldt WH, Khanna AK, Smischney NJ, Boero IJ, Chen Q, Stevens M, Shaw AD Tags: Anesth Analg Source Type: research

Perioperative adverse cardiac events and mortality after non-cardiac surgery: a multicenter study
CONCLUSIONS: A nationwide multicenter study showed that PACE was significantly associated with increased one-year mortality. This association was stronger in high-risk surgery, older, male, and chronic kidney disease subgroups. Further studies to improve mortality associated with PACE are needed.PMID:37169362 | DOI:10.4097/kja.23043
Source: Korean Journal of Anesthesiology - May 11, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Byungjin Choi Ah Ran Oh Jungchan Park Jong-Hwan Lee Kwangmo Yang Dong Yun Lee Sang Youl Rhee Sang-Soo Kang Seung Do Lee Sun Hack Lee Chang Won Jeong Bumhee Park Soobeen Seol Rae Woong Park Seunghwa Lee Source Type: research

Use of neuromuscular blockade for neck dissection and association with iatrogenic nerve injury
CONCLUSIONS: In this study, use of neuromuscular blockade intraoperatively during neck dissection was not associated with increased rates of iatrogenic cranial nerve injury. While this investigation provides early support for safe use of neuromuscular blockade during neck dissection, future investigation with greater power remains necessary.PMID:37507689 | DOI:10.1186/s12871-023-02217-7
Source: Atherosclerosis - July 28, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Joshua D Smith Graciela Mentz Aleda M Leis Yuan Yuan Chaz L Stucken Steven B Chinn Keith A Casper Kelly M Malloy Andrew G Shuman Scott A McLean Andrew J Rosko Mark E P Prince Kevin K Tremper Matthew E Spector Samuel A Schechtman Source Type: research